[amsat-bb] Re: Lunar Mission Looking for Payloads

[Rob Roschewsk]

According to this path loss is a lot less than I expected:
http://leleivre.com/rf_pathloss.html

~206db at 1.2GHz .... assuming a 384403KM trip

you're still going to need some hardware .... but I think it's doable ....


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Bob- W7LRD <w7lrd at comcast.net> wrote:

> just curious, what would the link budget look like for a lunar transponder?
> 73 Bob W7LRD
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> The drawback may be the cost 1.35m Euros/kg, see
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> http://amsat-uk.org/2013/11/05/lunar-mission-looking-for-payloads/
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> 73 Trevor M5AKA
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